Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone in which nothing much happens. You feel good and then you feel good. And then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nikolai.

I read and write all the stories you hear on nothing much happens.

Audio engineering is by Bob Wittersheme. We give to a different charity each week, and this week we are giving to the Kangaroo

sanctuary. They rescue, rehabilitate, and release orphaned baby kangaroos back into the wild.

Learn more at the link in our show notes.

We are working to make your whole day softer and more enjoyable.

You can wake up with my 10 minute meditation podcast, first this,

distressed during the day, with my new show Stories from the Village of Nothing Much.

And then let me tuck you in for sweet dreams here on Nothing Much Happens.

Find them all on any podcast app for free.

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Now, I have a simple and pleasant way to ease you to sleep. We need to engage your brain just the right amount to keep it from

wandering. And just by listening to the sound of my voice, the general shape of our story, will do that.

A gently focused brain is one primed for sleep.

I'll tell the story twice, and I'll go a little slower the second time through.

If you wake later in the next, lower the second time through.

If you wake later in the night,

you can play the story again,

or just think through any part of it that you can remember.

This is conditioning, brain training.

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